Good news! That endorsement represents that you are licensed to ride a motorcycle - and in honor of your elite status, I hereby grant you the authority to make decisions on the questions you post, and to decide all by your lonesome.

Flip up helmet
Extra sunglasses or use flip down sun shade but not both because you are not arc welding or viewing an eclipse
Jacket either totally mesh vented with removable liner or a well vented waterproof jacket and layer your clothing
Solid comfortable boots
Vented gloves and spare pair of regular non vented glove
Sunblock for when you are stopped, cooling vests and bandanas dont work worth a damn
Done

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Flip up helmet
Extra sunglasses or use flip down sun shade but not both because you are not arc welding or viewing an eclipse
Jacket either totally mesh vented with removable liner or a well vented waterproof jacket and layer your clothing
Solid comfortable boots
Vented gloves and spare pair of regular non vented glove
Sunblock for when you are stopped, cooling vests and bandanas dont work worth a damn
Done

Just like any other ride, pretty much any where in the world. Lots of folks don't take into account the altitude variations in Mexico. I carried my Gerbing jacket liner and used it a few times during a month below the border in May 2010.

+1 Have used my Gerbing heated jacket liner many times in Central America.

TravelGuy

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Originally Posted by George 99

Just like any other ride, pretty much any where in the world. Lots of folks don't take into account the altitude variations in Mexico. I carried my Gerbing jacket liner and used it a few times during a month below the border in May 2010.

60f was the low temp, Craneguy? That's because you were still sleeping in a nice warm bed in Xalapa while the chicken truck driver was trying to take me out at 48f

That new suit you have is the dog's bollocks as they say. Don't worry about the saggy crotch, when you sell the Suzuki and man up and get a BMW, you will easily fill out that portion of the suit.

Don't laugh! It's true!
But it is really an illusion. The normally fat wallet you have in your rear pocket, shrinks considerably and thus the frontal area appears larger. You then end up doing the "BMW owner walk" where you look like a porn star from the front, but like you crapped yourself from the rear. You will notice this effect when people walk away from a BMW parts counter or after a UPS delivery.

I always haul the toilet paper down(in a ziplock bag) & have to say I've never used mine yet! I did loan it out to a lady one time so it's my goodwill take along item for now.
On riding pants: I was riding the "Snake" in Sept (WV/VA-one hell of a road too!) and at the well known store/bologna stop this guy on a crotch rocket tells me my riding pants are "clownish". I told him he ought to see "me" underneath as I was wearing hiking shorts inside & what with legs that are long worn out too! I wear over sized Olympia's with suspenders to accommodate insulated stuff/jeans/ball room/etc. & protect my hide. He had on a T-shirt,jeans & helmet & had told us he was a newbie rider-hope he keeps it going on...